RIVERSIDE THEATRES PRESENTS JOSEPH TAWADROS Riverside presents City of Holroyd Brass Band QUARTEand PackeminT Productions MUSIC SUNDAY 28 FEB AT 3PM boundaries; a migrant success story BIOGRAPHIES founded on breathtaking talent and a larrikin sense of humour. JOSEPH Joseph has toured extensively headlining in Europe, America, Asia and the Middle TAWADROS East and has collaborated with artists Oud such as tabla master Zakir Hussain, Despite being just 32, Joseph Tawadros has sarangi master Sultan Khan, Banjo already achieved great success. His three maestro , John Abercrombie, recent albums, Permission to Evaporate, Jack DeJohnette, Christian McBride, Mike Chameleons of the White Shadows and Stern, , Ivry Gitlis, Neil Finn Concerto of the Greater Sea took out ARIAs and Katie Noonan. He has also had guest for Best World Music Album. Every single appearances with the , Adelaide and one of his albums has been nominated Symphony Orchestras. for ARIA recognition. He blends and blurs Joseph is also recognised for his mastery musical tradition while crossing genres and of the instrument in the Arab world. He has the end result is magical. He has recorded, been invited to adjudicate the Damascus composed for and performed with many of International Oud Competition in 2009, to the biggest international jazz and classical perform at Istanbul’s inaugural Oud Festival artists. Joseph continues to create modern in 2010 and at the Institut du Monde Arabe, platforms for one of the world’s oldest Paris in 2013. instruments, remaining true to its soul while pairing it with unlikely accents. 2015 saw a national tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, as well Joseph is the recipient of an Order of as performances at Melbourne Recital 2016, winner of the 2014 NSW Centre, Elder Hall (Adelaide) and the highly Premier’s Multicultural Award for Arts and anticipated release of his twelfth album, Culture, and finalist for Young Australian of Truth Seekers, Lovers and Warriors for ABC the Year in 2013. He has been named as Classics. Joseph has also done several one of Sydney’s Top 20 Most Influential. The European tours, touring with Richard youngest recipient of the very prestigious Tognetti and the Academy of Ancient Music Freedman Fellowship for Classical Music to Maribor Festival (Slovenia). This year, (2006), Joseph is the only oud player to Joseph performs at Museum of Old and play a seven-string oud, an achievement New Art, Perth International Arts Festival, celebrated through the Joseph Tawadros National Folk Festival (Canberra), Canberra Signature Series Oud created by Master International Music Festival, Melbourne Oud Maker Luthier Veysel Sarikus. Recital Centre and Riverside Theatres. Joseph is a powerful example of the For more information about Joseph Australian migration story. His parents, please visit josephtawadros.com Nabil and Rose, chose to adopt Australia as their home in 1986 when Joseph was just 2, leaving behind a life in turbulent Egypt. His personal story is multi-faceted – a musical game changer who blurs in 1999 and The Freedman Fellowship in JAMES 2005. Matt has performed with many of TAWADROS Australia’s jazz icons including Dale Barlow, Req and Bendir Greg Osby, James Morrison, Don Burrows, Phil Slater, Katie Noonan, Vince Jones, At only 26 years of age, James Tawadros Bobby Previte, Dave Panichi, Jazzfolk and has already made a name for himself as a Guy Strazz. He has led his own groups such world-class percussionist and soloist. His as the Matt McMahon Trio and is involved main instrument is the req, a small hand-held in the collaborative group The Band of tambourine, traditionally with skin covering and Five Names. Founder of the Jazzgroove five pairs of cymbals. Association, he is also actively involved It is James’ unique innovative style and in the jazz community as a broadcaster mastery of the req that has brought him great and currently teaches at the Sydney acclaim worldwide. His dexterity, rhythmic Conservatorium of Music, while continuing variety and virtuosity continue to amaze to tour both nationally and internationally. audiences. He has performed internationally Beginning classical piano lessons at the with many celebrated artists and regularly age of 7, it wasn’t until his teens that his accompanies his brother Joseph in concert. interest in jazz began. Matt completed Some of his career highlights as soloist include a Bachelor of Arts from the University of orchestral tours with the Australian Chamber Sydney in 1992 with an honours degree in Orchestra and Camerata Salzburg, as well as English Literature and later completed an a duet recording collaboration with legendary Associate Diploma in Jazz Studies from the jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette (of Miles Davis Sydney Conservatorium of Music. fame) for the album The Hour of Separation which also featured jazz luminaries John Abercrombie and John Patitucci. KARL In 2004, at just 15 years of age, James DUNNICLIFF Bass featured as youngest ever guest soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and in 2006 Since graduating from the Sydney took part in their national tour The Travellers, Conservatorium of Music, where he studied featuring the Tawadros brothers. He has with world acclaimed bassist Craig Scott, performed with greats such as Béla Fleck, Karl has been in high demand as a double Richard Bona, Joey DeFrancesco, and Roy and electric bass player. Over the years he Ayers, to name a few. With his brother Joseph, has also studied with Rufus Reid, Andrew he has also won three ARIA Awards for Best Dickeson, and Mike Nock. World Music Album in 2012, 2013 and 2014. In 2008 he was selected as a finalist in the National Jazz Awards for double bass MATT at Wangaratta, one of the largest annual MCMAHON jazz festivals in Australia and he regularly Piano supports some of Australia’s best known musicians including James Morrison and Matt McMahon is one of Australia’s finest Dale Barlow. jazz pianists and composers. He has won many awards such the National Jazz Award NOTE FROM JOSEPH TAWADROS The album from which many of the works on this compositions up until its final cadence. It’s not program are taken is Permission to Evaporate. about creating sad music, but about covering a The music covers a range of diverse voices, wide range of emotions in truth and intention. compounding all that I’ve learnt in my first I think of my parents, and my brothers and 30 years on this planet and converting those sister. I think of the world. I think of innocence, experiences to sound – a compositional diary, if of friends and others who have lost loved ones. you will…I wanted to create music which was I think of an embrace, a simple gesture of fresh, fun, non-contrived and organic, which kindness, a comforting kiss. The stars, the moon, flowed naturally, drawing upon influences the sun, the changing of the seasons running of bluegrass, jazz, classical, baroque, blues, hand in hand with compassion and love. flamenco, gypsy, Middle Eastern, rock and even heavy metal music. Being careful not to hijack It is perhaps a type of melancholy drunk in any of those genres, while maintaining the Oud’s celebration, but there is also victory here. Life will strong timbral integrity and avoiding cliché. inevitably keep throwing the unexpected and we must never give up and continue to persevere, On this album, the Oud walks down many paths albeit with wound in heart, but with hope always and plays both a supportive role as well as a in hand. We are healing... soloistic one, always serving the journey of the

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